Support for you while someone you love is struggling.


Therapy for Families & Loved Ones Affected by Addiction

Loving someone who struggles with addiction can be painful, confusing, and exhausting.

You may find yourself worrying constantly, questioning whether you are helping or enabling, or unsure when to step in and when to step back. You may have spent so much time focused on someone else’s needs that you have lost touch with your own.

You might be experiencing:

  • Anxiety, fear, or uncertainty about a loved one’s substance use

  • Guilt when you try to set boundaries

  • Feeling responsible for someone else’s choices, safety, or recovery

  • Cycles of hope, disappointment, anger, and resentment

  • Broken trust, conflict, or difficult family dynamics

  • Difficulty telling the difference between supporting someone and enabling them

  • Emotional exhaustion and disconnection from your own needs

When someone you love is struggling, your own well-being can easily become secondary. Therapy puts the focus on your experience: how addiction has affected your relationships, and what is and is not within your control.

We might work on:

  • The impact of addiction on you and your relationships

  • Patterns of caretaking, codependency, and over-responsibility

  • Healthy boundaries that preserve compassion

  • Difficult emotions, uncertainty, and family dynamics

  • Rebuilding self-trust and reconnecting with your own needs and values

  • Supporting someone you love without losing yourself

I bring a background in addiction treatment and personal experience loving those struggling with addiction to this work. I draw on psychodynamic, relational, and somatic approaches to address both the immediate challenges you face and the deeper patterns that shape your relationships.

This work is not about learning to change or control someone else’s behavior. It is about finding greater freedom, stability, and connection in your own life, wherever your loved one is in their recovery.

You can care deeply about someone without carrying the weight of their recovery alone. If you are navigating the challenges of loving someone who struggles with addiction, I welcome you to scroll down to learn more about my approach and reach out for a consultation.

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How We Might Work Together

  • Relational Therapy

    You’ve spent a lot of time helping someone else. Here, the focus is on you, and we build a relationship where you feel supported, held, and understood.

  • Psychodynamic Exploration

    We explore how family roles, early experiences, and relationship patterns influence your sense of responsibility for others, and develop clarity about your own needs and boundaries.

  • Somatic Awareness

    You notice how ongoing worry and relational stress affect your body. This can help you recognize when you are becoming overwhelmed and reconnect with what you need. We find connection and healing through the body.

  • IFS-Informed Parts Work

    Some parts of you may feel responsible for protecting someone you love, fear what might happen if you step back, or feel angry and exhausted. Understanding these competing feelings can help you respond with more compassion and self-trust.

  • ACT & CBT

    We develop tools for setting boundaries, having difficult conversations, and managing worry, and for distinguishing what you can control from what you cannot. We also work on making choices aligned with your values, even when guilt or uncertainty is present.

  • Earth-Based Psychotherapy

    Grounding practices, nature symbolism, and ritual can support emotional processing, make room for grief, help you release unrealistic responsibility, and foster steadiness amid uncertainty.

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